Protective holder for bottles.



C. SCHAUM & R. H. WILLTAIVIS.

PROTECTIVE HOLDER FOR BOTTLES.

APPUCATIQN FILED 001.30. i915.

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PROTECTIVE HOLDER .'FOR BOTTLES.

specification :of Letters Patent. Patented Ang. 29, 1916.

Application filed October 30, 1915. Serial No. 58,867.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, CHRIST SCHAUM andRAYMOND H. WILLIAMS, citizens of the United States, residing atKulpmont, in the county of Northumberland and State of Pennsylvania,have invented new and useful Improvements in Protective Holders forBottles, of which the following is a specilication.

The present invention relates to protective holders for milk or similarbottles, one of the objects being to provide an extremely simple, cheap,ornamental and reliable device of this character which may be attachedto a door or casing and which is provided with an aperture whereby theneck of the bottle may be arranged within the casingV and locked theretoby the deliverer, but wherein the locking element is' so arranged as toprevent the operation thereof from the exterior of the building, so thatthe "bottle can only be removed from the casing when the door is swungto its open position.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of this characterhaving an indicator arranged thereon, whereby the dispenser of thebottle may readily ascertain the quantity of milk, or the like,required.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device of thischaracter which will accommodate itself to bottles having various sizesof necks.

With the above and other objects in view,

the improvement resides in the constructiom combination and arrangementof parts set forth in the following specification and falling within thesco-pe of the appended claims.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating theapplication of the improvement, Fig. 2 is a central horizontal sectionalview through the same, Fig. 3 is a sectional view approximately on theline 3-3 of Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 is a perspective View looking toward theinside of the casing.

In the drawing 1 designates a stationary member, such as the casing of adoor, 2 the swinging member which is hingedly secured to one side of thecasing and which is contacted, at its free end, by a shoulder formed byrabbeting the casing in the usual manner.

rlfhe numeral 3 designates a housing or casing which has two of itssides open, one of the said open sides having its edges flangedoutwardly and provided with apertures for the reception of securingelements whereby the casing 3 may be secured to either the swinging orthe stationary member. For the sake of compactness as well as to add tothe ornamentality of the device the casing has its closed side rounded,as at 4, while its top is provided with a sight opening below which ispivotally secured, as at 5, a disk 6, the said disk being providedadjacent its periphery with a plurality of indicating marks 7 which areadapted to be disclosed through the opening when the disk is revolvedupon its pivot. If desired suitable means may be provided for retainingthe disk against rotation, and the indicating characters upon the saiddisk indicate the quantity of milk to be delivered by the milk man.Preferably the upper face of the casing is inclined from its flangededge, so that the same will shed moisture, while the lower face S ishorizontally straight. This face 8 is centrally provided with a roundaperture 9 of an area suiiicient to receive the necks of various sizesof milk or other bottles. Pivotally secured, as at 10, to the inner faceof the bottom of the casing is a curved plate 11, the pivot of the saidplate being preferably arranged at the open and anged side of the casingadjacent the edge of the aperture 9. The flat curved plate 11 has itsfree end provided with a depending knob 12 which passes through anelongated slot 13 in the said lower face of the casing, and this knob isadapted to serve as a means whereby the curved plate may be swung uponits pivot to bring the inner periphery of the same within the aperture9, so as to engage with the neck of the milk bottle below the beadformed at the mouth thereof. The free end of the curved plate 11 isprovidedwith a spring catch 15, the same being adapted to co-act withthe teeth of the rack bar 14 and so lock the plate in an adjustedposition to grasp the necks of bottles of various sizes. The springcatch is provided with a finger 16, whereby the same may be brought outof engagement with the rack bar and the plate swung rearwardly upon itspivot topermit of the removal of the milk bottle from the casing. Itwill, of course, be understood that the spring catch cannot be operatedfrom the outside of a building and the same is so arranged that the slot13 is fully covered by the curved plate 11, so that an instrument cannotbe inserted through the slot to withdraw the catch from its engagementwith the rack bar.

From the above description, taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawings,v

the simplicity of the device, as well as the advantages thereof will, itisthought, be perfectly apparent to those skilled in the art to whichsuch invention appertains without further detailed description.

Having thus described the invention, what we claim is:

1. In a milk bottle holder, a casing adapted to be secured to a supportand having an open side which is adapted to be closed by a' membermovable with relation to the support, said casing having its underfaceprovided with an aperture, a curved plate pivoted in the said casingadjacent the said aperture, means connected with the plate and extendingbelow the bottom of the casing for swinging the plate to bring the samewithin the area of the aperture, means for locking the plate in suchposition, said means being operable to release the plate when themovable member is brought away from the support.

2.. In a milk bottle holder, a casing having open sides, one of which islianged and adapted to be secured to either a stationary or hingedmember whereby the second open end will be normally closed by the othermember, when the hinged member is swung closed upon the stationarymember, the outer side of the casing being round, the top of the casingbeing inclined from its ianged side to its said rounded side, antndicator upon the said top and operated from the interior of thecasing, the bottom of the casing having an aperture, a flat curved platepivoted within the said bottom, a spring catch upon the free end of theplate, a rack bar within the casingadapted to be engaged by the plateand operative from the exterior of the casing to swing the plate tobring the same within the area of the aperture, and a ingermember uponthe catch, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof lwe aiX our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

CHRIST SCHAUM. RAYMOND H. WILLIAMS. Witnesses:

RAY TBEON, JEFFERSON SHIPMAN.

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